Sharp County record., 1887-09-22

visiting in Evening Shade last week.
Thev reside near S1nithville.
Highest market prices paid for eggs
and chickens, at Clayton & Cope's,
Hardy, Ark.
DIR. Cameron presented the RECORD
with a fine, white English peach last
Saturday, Thanks.
One bushel of good, clean wheat
will pay for the RECORD year. Garry
TO one of the mills near Evening Shade
when you 20 to Batesville call on K.
D. Williams. de gives the highest prices
for cotton, wool, dried fruit, eggs &c.
M. G. Wainwright: now has charge
of the meat shop and will endeavor to
supply the demand killing every Tues
day Thursday and Saturday,
W. W. Hall came down from Canton
and gave US q call yesterday. He is on
recreation trip in this and adjoining
counties, He has our thanks for a mann
moth peach.
-Adolphus Jernigan, son of George
Jenigan, while going to school here last
winter, stuck table fork in his left eye
and had to quit school and 60 home. The
eye has since gone out.
We assure Mr.. Arnold that no slur
was intended in the mention made OF
him in connection with the family gro
cery and law Office last week. Twas
printed as a news item, given by himself,
and so appeared in our "locals' y
"A boy was arrested the other day
in Independence county, for KIN ocking
down Sign board several months ago.
He was indicted for the offense at the
last tenn of court, and will cost his par
ents more money than he will earn in a
year for his stone-throwing proclivities,
a half minutes idleneSs.
The Baptist meeting closed on
Wednesday night of last week. Our
people heard some good preaching by
Revs. FoaId, Brown and Troy, and were
no doubt edited. The Methodist quar-
telly meeting begun Friday and contin-
ued till Sunday night. There were no
conversions at either meeting.
The Board of Equalization, after
five days of arduous labor, succeeded in
raising the value of the real estate $751;
1888 over the assessment, and adjourned
until Sept. S0th, 1887. The late law
requires the Board to notify the owners
of all property raised to appear at the
next term of the county court and show
cause why it should not be raised.
Our friend L. B. Delman call ed on
the RECORD last Friday while on busi-
ness trip through Sharp From him we
learn that John Mauldin killed pelican
on Reeds creek, the l4th inst, which
measured Z feet and s inches from tip to
tip Of WINGS and was feet 81 inches
high, with beak just foot in length.
The habby pouch under his throat
held Q gallons of shelled corn.
There Will be contest at the Bates
vile fair, which begins Oct. II, between
Sharp, Jackson and Independence coun-
ties, for the baseball championship of
North Arkansas. None but legal voters
will be allowed to play in this series of
games, which rule will exclude all hired
professional players and compel each
county to contend for the penant with
its own skill. We predict that Sharp
will do the "Eli" act on the river boys.
j. W. Sharp, the oldest heir to the
property, has rented the Sharp mills and
gin for year, beginning last Tuesday.
the Goth inst The new proprietor will
make all needed repairs about the mill,
put in new gin-stand and will ever be
prepared to give perfect satisfaction in
every particular, Meal and -four will be
kept on hand at all times. Meal only
60 cents per bushel. new and expe.
rienced miller is in charge. A liberal
share of the public patronage is earnest
ly solicited.
The law says that road -overseers
must "cause to be erected and kept in
good repair a guide-post at the forks and
crossing places OF every road and high
way" in tae several districts, on which
shall be plainly inscribed the distances
to the "most noted places to which such
roads may lead.' This portion of the
road. law. as we'll as all other portions,
has been sadly neglected in Sharp coun-